Luke 15:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 5 Now his elder son was in the field, and when he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have enough food, and [even food] to spare, but I am perishing (dying) here of hunger!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!

Common English Bible

¹⁷ When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have more than enough food, but I’m starving to death!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And returning to his senses, he said: 'How many hired hands in my father's house have abundant bread, while I perish here in famine!

Luke 15:17 Cross References

Ezekiel 18:28

And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.

Ephesians 5:14

3 Because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body.

Jeremiah 31:19

7 Behold the days come, saith the Lord: and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Juda with the seed of men, and with the seed of beasts.

Acts 2:37

5 Their possessions and goods they sold, and divided them to all, according as every one had need.

Luke 16:23

1 And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.

Luke 8:35

3 And there was a certain woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had bestowed all her substance on physicians, and could not be healed by any.

Lamentations 1:7

5 Samech. The Lord hath taken away all my mighty men out of the midst of me: he hath called against me the time, to destroy my chosen men: the Lord hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter of Juda.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

0 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Psalm 73:20

7 For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.

Psalm 119:59

6 Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments.

Hosea 2:7

5 And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

Luke 15:16

4 Because this my son was dead, and is come to life again: was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Acts 12:11

9 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not; having examined the keepers, he commanded they should be put to death; and going down from Judea to Caesarea, he abode there.